| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 227 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
In/complete : an introduction to the theories of miniaturization and fragmentation / S. Rebecca Martin, Stephanie M. Langin-Hooper -- Breaking bodies and biographies : figurines of the Playa de los Muertos tradition / Rosemary A. Joyce -- Tiny and fragmented votive offerings from classical antiquity / Jessica Hughes -- Divinity in part or in full? : representations of Tanit in texts and art / S. Rebecca Martin -- Style as a fragment of the ancient world : a view from the Iron Age Levant and Assyria / Marian H. Feldman -- Stronger at the broken places : affect in Hellenistic Babylonian miniatures with separately made and attached limbs / Stephanie M. Langin-Hooper -- Tiny bodies for intimate worlds : human figurines in Iberian iron age sanctuaries / Mireia López-Bertran, Jaime Vives-Ferrándiz -- Incomplete : the uneasy powers of holes, cut surfaces, and neolithic pit-houses / Doug Bailey -- A response : scaling the walls of Persepolis toward an imaginal social/material landscape / Margaret Cool Root |
| Summary |
The book offers a series of fresh perspectives on the familiar concepts of the tiny and the fragmented. Written by a prestigious group of internationally-acclaimed scholars, the volume presents a remarkable diversity of case studies that range from Neolithic Europe to pre-Colombian Honduras to the classical Mediterranean and ancient Near East. Each scholar takes a different approach to issues of miniaturization and fragmentation but is united in considering the little and broken things of the past as objects in their own right. Whether a life-size or whole thing is made in a scaled-down form, deliberately broken as part of its use, or only considered successful in the eyes of ancient users if it shows some signs of wear, it challenges our expectations of representation and wholeness, of what it means for a work of art to be "finished" and "affective." Overall, 'The Tiny and the Fragmented' demands a reconsideration of the social and contextual nature of miniaturization, fragmentation, and incompleteness, making the case that it was because of, rather than in spite of, their small or partial state that these objects were valued parts of the personal and social worlds they inhabited |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Miniature art.
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Material culture.
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Art, Ancient.
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material culture (discipline)
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- General.
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Art, Ancient
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Material culture
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Miniature art
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Martin, S. Rebecca, editor.
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Langin-Hooper, Stephanie M., editor.
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| ISBN |
9780190910822 |
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0190910828 |
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9780190614836 |
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0190614838 |
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9780190614829 |
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019061482X |
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